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In the races to represent the Coachella Valley in the state legislature, incumbent Assembly members Chad Mayes, R-Yucca Valley, and Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, have outraised their opponents by wide margins and enter into the election season’s final months with overstuffed campaign coffers. But in the race for State Senate, incumbent Senator Jeff Stone, R-La Quinta, trails his Democratic challenger, first-time candidate Joy Silver, in fundraising.

Throughout the race, Silver has outraised Stone by more than $70,000. Her campaign has raised more than $330,000 in contributions, while Stone has raised about $260,000. Silver currently enjoys a cash-on-hand advantage over Stone. Her campaign is sitting on about $120,000, while Stone has only half that, with $60,000.

Silver has received about $100,000 in contributions from labor groups and over $15,000 from political action committees that support female candidates for office, including the Women’s Political Committee and Fund Her PAC. She has supplemented her campaign account with $55,000 in loans she has given personally.

Like Silver, DeniAntionette Mazingo is a first-time candidate running against a Republican incumbent in a historically conservative district. But while Silver has raised hundreds of thousands, Mazingo has only raised $17,000 in cash contributions.

Mazingo lags behind Mayes, and the former Republican Assembly leader has a clear resource advantage heading into the final two months of the campaign, with more than $350,000 cash on hand, nearly 70 times more than Mazingo’s $5,000 cash reserves.

The Mayes campaign has raised $1.1 million throughout the election season and expended hundreds of thousands in the primary to ensure victory over the Assembly member’s Republican opponents, San Jacinto City Council member Andrew Kotyuk and former Palm Springs Police Chief Gary Jeandron. Mazingo, comparatively, only spent $12,000 in the primary.

Mayes has received a slew of contributions from groups with vested interests in the final week of the Assembly’s legislative session. He has spent much of the final week of the legislative session helping devise a new wildfire liability policy for California. And on Monday, he received $1,500 from a PAC supporting property-casualty insurers and $1,000 from a PAC supporting California firefighters. On Wednesday, a week after he voted against bail reform in California, Mayes received $1,000 from Christopher Blaylock, an executive working for the American Bail Coalition.

Mayes’s Assembly colleague Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, also has collected contributions from special interest groups throughout his campaign. Garcia won the primary election by more than 30 percentage points, but although his seat is hardly vulnerable, labor groups have pumped tens of thousands into his campaign coffers.

He has received $9,000 contributions from five different committees supporting labor groups and, in total, has raised $550,000 throughout the campaign. His opponent, Republican military veteran Jeff Gonzalez, has raised only $46,000, more than 10 times less than Garcia.